Your Favorite Campaign

[K a i d o]

Hey guys, first time poster here.

For some reason, I enjoy reading about other people's campaigns (their battle plans, enemies, allies, etc etc) so I figured I'd make a thread about it. Post one of the more memorable campaigns you've had!

If there's already a thread like this, I apologize for making another.

As for MY favorite campaign:

It has to be a game I'm currently playing.

I'm, unfortunately, playing vanillia (can't get mods to work) on m/m (not exactly amazing at the game yet) as Venice. It's been a lot of fun though, mainly because it's pretty much a world war. Right off the bat I allied myself with Hungary and France. Milan eventually ended up declaring war on me, and then allied themselves with HRE, whom declared war on Hungary. France stayed relatively peaceful until England attacked them. England then allied themselves with Milan and HRE.

It was a pretty fun war -- HRE was sending a few stacks against Hungary, so I sent my best general's son to aid them with a stack of my own. We eventually halted their advance and Hungary began pushing into HRE territory. Mean while, I had my main general taking all the cities in northern Italy which began pushing Milan towards France, and Milan ended up declaring war on them. HRE followed suit.

France seemed to be winning their war against England, so I began focusing my attention on Siciliy and Byzantines, whom ended up declaring war on me while I was busy in northern Italy. I immediately moved to attack the islands off the shore held by Sicily, and sent my army in Hungary south towards the Byzantines. Hungary joined me against the Byzantines, which turned into an easy fight -- we took Constantinople, and and pushed them out of Europe with relative easy.

Sicily was a different story, however. They allied with Spain and Portugal, and their navies were a pain. It was hard to get my armies to north Africa with their fleets constantly attacking mine. On top of that, they were putting constant pressure on my castles on the islands and always blockading my ports. I would build my fleet up, but it'd constantly get withered down and destroyed. Also, around this time, I noticed France was getting their rears kicked -- they were down to 3 territories, and my strongest armies were still in Byzantine. I sent one of my 3 star generals still in northern Italy towards France, giving him what troops I can spare from the cities and buying as many mercenaries as I could.

After a few difficult battles, I managed to take the two remaining castles Milan had (getting them out of the picture), which I used as my main staging point to assist France. I'm doing my best to help him, but I can't put all my economy towards their aid -- the Mongols are pushing towards Constantinople, and I still have to deal with Sicily.

England's armies were constantly attacking the closest castle I had near France. It got to the point where one more stack attack would most likely take it, and I noticed one was getting closer. I bought as many units as I could, and I did the necessary repairs, and pretty much dug in.

All of a sudden a diplomat from Denmark arrives and asks for an alliance. I say yes, of course, and out of no where I see Denmark beseiging Paris (which had fallen to the English), which made England's stack march the other way. France then allied with Denmark, and so did Hungary. Portugal and Spain allied with England and HRE.

So, in a nut shell it was (and still is): Hungary, France, Venice and Denmark vs. Portugal, Spain, England and HRE.

[Rean]

Wow, nice, thats must be a really intresting campaign. My favorite was probably Portugal on SS 6.1. It was my first time turtling so it was nice to see my economy grow imensly. I also tried to have good rep, many allies and few enemies. It was and intresting experience wich i hope will help me in my later campaigns, but im too lazy to write more details

[Jiub]

Interesting

I think I`m playing it now
SS is just great! playing Lithuania and loving it.

[zumbum]

My favourite had to be quite a recent one.

I was playing as extremely devout Scottish, abused my relationship with the Pope to get a bucketload of crusades for my troops who levelled considerably. I accepted the Knights Hospitaller and got some damn decent units churning out of the Jerusalem area which I levelled up with some more crusades.

Sounds pretty standard? I decided to pay the Pope back for his good faith and started the reconquest of the Roman Empire in his name. I ended up taking most of Egypt, Turkey, the bastardised Romans in Constantinople was a particular favourite to hand back to his Grace, and of course the Italian peninsula. All returned until there was a Papal Empire! I kept Jerusalem to help his Grace's shite AI.

Largely done all with that same army I sailed to Jerusalem.

[Zerosliver]

It must be my first campaign with the British on Vanilla, I barely made it trough at some points. I used to play RTW, but I wasn't some kind of veteran. So I had a pretty tough time back than. Now I can just blitzt any faction I see, it's not really fun anymore.

[MastahCheef117]

My first game ever as England. I dominated the English isles by about turn 20/25, I had a MASSIVE depression until about turn 80 (I controlled the entire French West/North Coast and Antwerp), until I went at roughly a 40-year war (20 turns) with France which I eventually won and destroyed France. I think I accidentally deleted it a while back

[Emperor Napolean Bonaparte IX]

my favorite campaign is venice because while im conqeuring greece im also conquering the holy land and after im done with bothe i start to make my way into turkey its awseome

[leseras]

Hmm I'm playing my second(restarted) campaign right now on hard/medium as England. I am allied with every catholic except portugal who got excommunicated cause everyone sided with me. I have already destroyed milan and and french. Its pretty funny to see one faction getting attacked by the rest.... Btw i declared war on french in the name of spain and declared war on milan in the name of venice.

[Chapstazz]

Mine would have to be my first H/H campaign (Some time ago now) with Sicily. I loved the wars for the control of Italy, Greece, Africa and to some extent the Iberian peninsula. I eventually started to extend my realm north, through the alps (Demolishing the HRE in the process) and then through to France. I had vassaled Milan so they were in no shape to take on my mighty empire. However when the Mongols showed up in the Middle East, I quickly found them on my doorstep, this when the epic battle for survival began. Nearly every turn there was a battle for me to fight, I had my ups and downs but then the power of my empire beat back the invaders back to where they came from.

Peace.

[Fenrisulfrinn]

Nice, OP, those are the kinds of wars this game is supposed to have. I think it might be my vh/vh tendencies, but it seems like every campaign I play just turns into everybody declare war on everybody else; I never get any of that sweet axis and allies stuff going on.

But my favorite campaign, I think, was back when M2TW first came out and after having practiced 2 campaigns with the HRE on m/m and h/h, I jumped straight into vh/vh as Poland. It was a total madhouse in the Balkans for the first part of the campaign, basically a war front stretching from the Baltic Sea on the HRE border down along the coast of the Adriatic Sea against Venice to the South against Hungary and the Byzantines. It was awesome! Once I'd secured a good eastern border with Russia and captured Constantinople, I turned towards the West and just slowly gobbled up Western Europe, all the way down to Spain and including Italy and Scandinavia. So there were some very close calls in the beginning, but I eventually went on to take all of Europe. Yeehaw.

[Valandur]

I've only played as England and The Holy Roman Empire so far. But I'll recap anyway.

England-
I really didn't do much with England. I took out all the Rebel settlements, had myself a nice strong army and my economy was doing reasonably well. A lot of the other factions were fighting amongst themselves and I sat back and watched, waiting until one died so I could take its Rebel remaining cities. At around the 60th turn Denmark attacked me at Bruges. I immediately reacted by destroying their army and driving them up the coast towards Antwerp, taking that city and then pinning them against Antwerp. By this time my army was seriously depleted and Denmark, having the largest military could still put up huge resistance around Hamburg. I managed to get my armies close enough to attack only to be blocked off by another Danish army moving in from Scandinavia, during this time I began using Assassins and was able to kill King Annun, straight after I launched an assault on Prince Gustav's army and destroyed it but the Prince himself survived. At the same time France disbanded but I wasn't able to spare men to capture their cities. After mass fighting in Hamburg, I finally retreated, me and Denmark were in tatters and we quickly declared a truce. Before I could even recover 1/5 of what I lost, Milan who had occupied the French cities and was now the largest military power attacked north into my sea-side cities. I was able to destroy 2-3 of their armies but around the same time The Black Plague struck and my armies were pretty much destroyed. I lost Caen and Rennes to determined Milanese assaults and my army at Antwerp was destroyed.
I haven't finished yet but I'm in serious trouble and I don't think I can keep a foothold on Mainland Europe much longer.

The Holy Roman Empire-
As soon as the game started I launched assaults on the Rebel cities - Prague, Florence, Bern, Metz, and Zagreb. I immediately dominated Central Europe and was left alone until I was dragged into the Milan-Venice conflict which was sprouting up in Northern Italy. I took sides with Milan but didn't directly get involved.
Then, religion once again caused stupidity and one of my better Generals was accused of Heresy and executed. This annoyed me.
So I flew into a rage and marshalled my armies north of Rome, revenge being my only intent, I don't care if the Pope excommunicates me or whatever bla bla bla and so on. As if anticipating my moves, Sicily attacks me and I was forced to leave Papal for a while and cut straight past them, Milan managed to block the pass between Rome and the mountains so I had to cut between the narrow strip of land between the sea and mountains, which was time consuming. But I finally reached Naples and after so reinforcements delayed crap on an earlier assault, I sacked the city, killed the King and the Prince/New King followed him soon after in a land battle near the straights of Sicily. So now I was marshalling my replenished armies near the Straights of Sicily, when Venice attacked me. This didn't bother me too much as I'd kept reinforcements flowing from the mountains around Bologna and don't all of Italy. I quickly countered their siege at Bologna, and then destroyed on their other armies.
It was all still under control when next turn, bam!- Milan, an ally for nearly 60 turns betrays me and lays siege to Bern, Hungary for no reason whatsoever, lays siege to Vienna and the annoying Danes lay siege to Frankfurt and a few Polish armies were rallying near Prague (but soon moved off thankfully). Now I was being attacked on all fronts except the south where I was attacking, not being attacked. Milan took Bern, I was able to beat off the Danes and Hungarians but Venice constantly assault Bologna, so now I'm looking for advice.

Should I make peace Sicily by giving back Naples so I can recall my armies from the south? Should my defending armies pull of and just defend my cities? Should I defeat the enemy armies and try to attack them (I can manage Hungary and I've already got an army marching on Budapest but I've got nothing to stop Milan and my armies near the Danes are unorganised)?

I rant. lol.

[goro]

one of my favorites was with russia at vanilla.its just that you dont have the pope over your head you declare war to anyone you want and you have only one frontier with strong factions.

[ChivalrousKiller]

I would say my KGCM English campaign that I'm playing now.

Just because KGCM has the greatest general of all time, Richard the Lionheart

[Swagga]

Should I make peace Sicily by giving back Naples so I can recall my armies from the south? Should my defending armies pull of and just defend my cities? Should I defeat the enemy armies and try to attack them (I can manage Hungary and I've already got an army marching on Budapest but I've got nothing to stop Milan and my armies near the Danes are unorganised)?

I rant. lol.

I'd definantly pull my armies out of Sicily. I'd march north and sack the city of Milan, hoping for it to draw off the Milanese. Move your other army from Budapest and fend of Denmark. You shouldn't try to advance on Hungary with a war on two fronts anyways. It would be much easier to fend off Hungary with 1/2 of your army that fights off Denmark (assuming you lose about that much defending Frankfurt) at home, rather then your whole army at Budapest being destroyed and left with one army and Hungary advancing from the east once again with no resistance.

[Valandur]

I'd definantly pull my armies out of Sicily. I'd march north and sack the city of Milan, hoping for it to draw off the Milanese. Move your other army from Budapest and fend of Denmark. You shouldn't try to advance on Hungary with a war on two fronts anyways. It would be much easier to fend off Hungary with 1/2 of your army that fights off Denmark (assuming you lose about that much defending Frankfurt) at home, rather then your whole army at Budapest being destroyed and left with one army and Hungary advancing from the east once again with no resistance.

Ah thats all behind me now. Sicily are gone, smashed there big army and took Palermo without a casualty. Venice took Bologna though but I immediately sent my armies back north to fight them. Captured the city back and the captured Venice itself and I'm now looking to crush the last of the pitiful nation. I took Budapest from Hungary and now have an army laying waste to Bran. I destroyed the Danish armies and quickly took Hamburg which now gives me access to Teutonic Knights and I'm now moving on Arhus. Only bad thing that happened was that I made peace with Milan, and then they attacked me again and took Staufen in the process.
This time I'm not gonna ceasefire with them.

[Swagga]

Here's one of my favorites, playing Denmark on hard right now.

Bold = Turn #

1-12: Seizes Hamburg, attempt to move north, defeated at Oslo. I ally with HRE to the south.
13-17: I take Antwerp, then move army eastward to Stettin, while preparing reinforcements at Hamburg. Allows wealth to build for turns 16 + 17.
18-20: Poland declares war. I ally w/ Russia. Poland attacks Stettin, and my army is about 2 turns away from interfering (18). Crusade is called on Jerusalem, but I don't join. I get a new general to command my army which had no general at the time. Poland pulls off Stettin (19). France allies w/ HRE, then HRE allies w/ Venice. I take Stettin (20), and convert Antwerp to a fortress to better protect the western border from a rising English kingdom.
21-28: France denies alliance and trade rights. New general for Antwerp (24). England and France go to war. I start to recruit troops at Antwerp and Hamburg to prepare a potential attack on the British Isles. Poland hasn't attacked again yet (28). HRE has only 1 enemy: Poland. They ask me to assist in battle to take out the Polish main army, and I do. HRE & I conquer the Polish main army. I prepare a small army to take Dublin, which is still rebel territory. I move north again, and this time I take Oslo.
29-36: Spain & Milan allies w/ England. In a tough 200 vs. 300 battle, I wrestle Stokholm from the rebels. I then smash the rebels at Dublin w/ minimal casualties. France still denies alliance and map information, but agrees to trade rights. Milan attacks France, and HRE sides with France. Then HRE allies w/ the Papal States (unusual if you ask me). I then crush a Polish army south of Stettin, and would not see them near my borders again. HRE attacks Magdeburg, and I aid them.
37-42: HRE pulls of Magdeburg, and moves east to deal with their continued war with Poland. Pope threatens me with excommunication to stop attacking Poland, so I agree and lift the siege on Magdeburg. Sicily allies w/ Milan. France has been crushing Milan and held them to two regions in northern Italy, and they've been handling England so far, holding them to just Caen on the European mainland. France finally allies w/ me. HRE allies w/ Spain. Spain declares war on France, HRE sides with France again. I attack York (40) and smash resistance (41). Milan allies w/ Spain, and attacks the Pope.
43-49: England attacks York. Pope allies w/ France. In an epic 400 vs. 400 battle, I fend off the English from York, and send reinforcements from Dublin. I ally w/ Venice. I move my armies in Britain towards Caernarvon (46), then move my armies from mainland Europe to aid my conquest of the British Isles (47). I attack Caernarvon (48), but Portugal aids England. Still, I outnumbered them 5 to 3, and crush Portugal's army and Caernarvon, starting war with Portugal. I move my army at York south towards Nottingham. England gets excommunicated.

By this time, England has taken Angers and Bruges from France, and Milan has trapped a French army at Marsielle. Poland has expanded far east, taking 6 rebel regions. HRE and Poland continue to fight, not making much headway. One takes 2 regions, then loses them, then loses 2 of their own, so on and so forth.

50-59: I move my army at Caernarvon towards Nottingham. With Englands focus on invading France from the north, I have remained unchallenged to this point in Britain. But, a surprise amount of British troops are waiting in Nottingham, about 1,050 lead by their Prince, Prince Henry. I make my armies meet at Nottingham, and come up with about 1,000 solid, lead by my Prince, Prince Frederik. England holds a 5:4 advantage, but, in Nottingham itself, there's only about 100 men, with their prince. 950 English troops lye just outside Nottingham, reinforcing them. The army led by my Prince contains about 500, with my 400 reinforcements. I command my reinforcing general to lead a night attack, cutting out English reinforcements from the mix in a slaughter, and left Prince Henry with 100 men to face 500 led by my Prince. I easily conquer Nottingham, losing about 100 men in the whole thing. But, another English army lies south of Nottingham, of about 900 men. My reinforcements are too far away to aid, but I still move forth with my Prince, trying my luck with being un-matched in the British Isles. In a 450 vs. 900 battle, I hardly lose a man against poorly trained British troops, and win. I send my armies back into Nottingham to retrain, and yet another 1,150 man English army is around Nottingham, and lays siege to it. However, with a constant flow of reinforcements, I fend off England from Nottingham.

This is where I am currently, reinforcing my army and about to attack London. France has kicked Milan back to Italy, and has taken back Bruges and Angers, trapping England to London and Caen.

[Didiuz]

My best one is probably the one im playing now as france on H/H i start out by taking all the rebel settlements i snatch bern before HRE takes it and then just build up for a few turns. Then HRE declares war on me and i start fighting them i take that fortress east of bern. Then the pope commans us to cease hostilities but HRE breaks it and get excommunicated i take the opptunity to call a crusade on frankfurt and manage to snap up another HRE town.then from no where milan attacks Marseille but i fend them off. I start working my way to innsbruck. The milanese lay low after i fended off their attack. so i keep on fighting with HRE manage to take all their cities exept Vienna and one city in northern italy. Then they get reconcilled so i instead turn my eyes on Milan taking Venice from them. Then Venice ( the faction) lays siege to Venice ( the city) so i fend that off and att the same time lay siege to the milanese town east of marseille. And baam Portugal attacks toulouse and denmark attack antwerp and venice keeps sending in armies to northern italy while the milanese are defending. The HRE start launching attacks from vienna. So there i am war on all fronts. But i am fending them off and manage to do a few counter attacks. I manage to take pamplona and zaragosa from portugal and then they ask for ceasefire. England also start launching attacks fomr Caen on paris. I also manage to take milan. and i almost got entire north italy for myself exept for an hre town that is stacked with 2 filled armies. and in the north i manage to counterattack the danes and take magdeburg and hamburg. I also manage to take Caen which exterminates England as they got owned by scottland. Im also launching an attack on some venician towns in the balkan but the pope keeps telling me the cease hostilites. while im also trying to take over the cardinal of college atm i have 6 cardinals im just waiting for the current pope to die and i should have control of christianity.The pope also calls a crusade on antioch and demands my king to join it so i start preparing with boats agents and soldiers. Hellafun rly its kinda me vs everyone but im managing to get by.

[Mik528]

My favorite was playing as the Moors h/h on vanilla as they're a pretty tough team in the beginning imo, I though I was lucky as the Portuguese and Spainish kings apparantly forgot about the Reconquista and fought one another, allowing me to snatch Valencia and Zaragoza early in the campaign. Then suddenly France attacked, I though no big deal, France may take Zaragoza but wouldnt touch Africa, a few turns later Sicily attacked me from Tunis. I had a massive conflict trying to keep Algiers, they sent hordes of knights but my Berbers stood strong So having a war on literally two fronts and two continents I decided to do something drastic, I allied myself with Portugal, as Spain was decimating them, then bribed spain to be my own ally. Thinking myself clever i look back to my capital Corduba a few turns later to see Portugal had backstabbed me! Asking spain for assistance (I had some bad economic times) against portugal they flat out refused and attacked me! You can see the difficulty as France and Sicily were bombarding me whilst the Reconquista took place. Eventually i accepted vassalship with France and lost Corduba to Spain, Valencia to Sicily and the Spainish were also advancing towards Marrkesh.. At least i had Timbuktu as backup
It was awesome

[Loftybox]

My favourite campagin has to be the one i am playing right now. I usually play as England but for once idecided to give the HRE a chance. It started off very well milan and venice declared war on me early allowing me to take milan and venice, then the pope intervined. A few turns later the pope died and an imperial cardinal became pope and promtly declared war on scily and milan. So i being a pious devout catholic nation lent the pope a helping hand and promptly took out the last venetian and milanese cities. Before going east to take antioch in a crusade. Now though Spain, France, Denmark, Poland, Hungry, Byzantine, Eygpt, and finally the Mongols have decided they no longer wish my empire to survive. To be honest it doesn't look to good a long war with Byzantine and france have bled my coffers and peperations for the mongols haven't been cheap either.

[tium]

My favorite on was when in silician vespers, I tink it was higth era, as a contry whith a single province in the midle of France (think it was the condate of angevin or something). I started as ally of france with good relations so I took upon myself to take norther france (whitch was almost all rebeld) for my contry, but once I captured a castle to the north of my capital, destroing almost all my army in the progress, I found out France had already thaken all other northern settlements.

So I was stuck in the midle of France, with no connection to the sea, a weak army, 1 castle and 1 underveloped city, france all arround me, the AI thats know for backstabing allys controling them, a treasury of about 10000 florins and a profit of about 200 each turn.....I was basically screwd if I didnt take measures quikly.

So, I started to train an army of all troops I could as quikly as possible, so as not to allow the AI time to build up. I also knew that there was a guarrison script in that campaing, so It would be very dificult. So I saved some of my money to buy mercenaries and retrain my army.

And attacked France.

My full stack of general + 6 militias spearmen + 4 archers + 1 elite unit I used just rarely and in decisive times + a bucketload of pesants attacked fist to the south. I managed to win the first batles, though whith higth casualties, all the wille retraining and recruiting more men, though I tried to never stay more than 1 turn in a captured settlement. Every settlement I conquered I'd sack it, every prisioners I'd get I ransoned them. Eventualy I took bordeux and managed to recruit some knigths and ligth cav to aid my conquests. Things went more smotly from there on. Sometimes they would attack my capital but i had it well defended with a second army. Eventually I managed to conquer all of france except the english nothingham (they were my allais btw) just to have france turn into a hord (wtf?).

Then I took the time to develop my hard gained kingdom, defending it from all borders.

What hapened to the french? Well, they went arround declaring war to anyting in their path. I later used toggle_fow to find them and they were in russia


It was epic, it was like I was leading a revolution agaish "the hated french and their king" hehe. I never though pesants were as usefull as they were during that campaing. Used them to suport my militias and surround the enemy, allways with the aid of my general's morall bosting ability of course, besides, in that mod they look pretty cool.

All hail the great emperor of france